A smudge on their lens?

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Huge Hole Found in the Universe
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer


The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.

The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.

Astronomers don't know why the hole is there.

"Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota.

Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding.

"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.

The finding will be detailed in the Astrophysical Journal.

The universe is populated with visible stars, gas and dust, but most of the matter in the universe is invisible. Scientists know something is there, because they can measure the gravitational effects of the so-called dark matter. Voids exist, but they are typically relatively small.

The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.

There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, Rudnick said.

The region had been previously been dubbed the "WMAP Cold Spot," because it stood out in a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation made by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe (WMAP) satellite. The CMB is an imprint of radiation left from the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of the universe.

"Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the slightly colder temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6 to 10 billion light-years from Earth," Rudnick said.

Photons of the CMB gain a small amount of energy when they pass through normal regions of space with matter, the researchers explained. But when the CMB passes through a void, the photons lose energy, making the CMB from that part of the sky appear cooler.

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P.S.

This universe becomes more and more grander, what a place! Too bad there are some people who wish to squabble and fight over their petty prejudices and beliefs when this wondrous universe is theirs to explore.

d.

[Brut by Faberge]

Are the bodies on the perimeter of the hole moving away from its center? What if there was a giant invisible generator at the center of the emptiness that supplied enough force to push shit away. Hubble would've loved to see this.

[david_mancuso]

Are the bodies on the perimeter of the hole moving away from its center? What if there was a giant invisible generator at the center of the emptiness that supplied enough force to push shit away. Hubble would've loved to see this.

Greetings Brut by Faberge

Thought you might find this also very interesting.

d.


http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame...html?id%3D7179

Warp drive and wormholes could be used for time travel, says physicist

KurzweilAI.net, August 24, 2007

Warp drive and stargate wormholes could be used for time travel to the past. That's the surprising conclusion that controversial theoretical physicist and author Dr. Jack Sarfatti has reached from his research into dark energy and dark matter.


Hubble image of dark matter ring in galaxy cluster

Sarfatti, who was the inspiration for "Doc" in the movie "Back From The Future," will discuss this on the Coast to Coast AM national radio talk show on Sunday, August 26 at 10 pm Pacific time.

The mysterious dark energy, which has puzzled astrophysicists, is actually "zero-point vacuum fluctuations with positive energy density and negative quantum pressure," he told KurzweilAI.net. "Dark matter is the same, but with negative energy density and positive pressure."

Zero-point energy is 96 percent of all the "stuff" in our visible universe, he explained. "What controls the sign of the zero point energy density at a given place and time and at a given scale of resolution? That is the 64 trillion dollar question, whose solution is the key to the metric engineering of weightless warp drive and star-gate wormholes.

"In addition to the visible universe that we see using telescopes, which capture retarded electromagnetic signals from the past, there is the invisible universe from the future. It retrocausally creates the visible universe in what Moscow physicist Igor Novikov has called a 'globally self-consistent loop in time.'" (See The Future of Spacetime by Stephen Hawking, Novikov, and others.)

"The expansion of 3D space out of the past inflation is accelerated by the universally repelling dark zero-point vacuum energy, which forms the future 'world hologram,' technically called the 'future de Sitter horizon.'" He points out that this is Frank Tipler's "Omega Point," which Stephen Hawking and Paul Davies call the "Mind of God" and Sir Fred Hoyle called "The Intelligent Universe."

"3D space is really a holographic projected image from the future 2D Omega Point," he believes. "I call this the Destiny Matrix Principle. Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler has called this 'IT FROM BIT.' In a sense, our reality is like that in the Matrix movies and the movie, The Thirteenth Floor. The future invisible universe reaches back in time to create the visible universe we see with telescopes -- back from the future.

"The information capacity of the Hologram Mind of God is ~ 10122 BITS and this also explains why the constant dark zero-point energy density is 122 powers of ten smaller than naive quantum field theory (without considering gravity) predicts."

Jack Sarfatti graduated from Cornell and the University of California with three degrees in physics, including PhD. He's the author of three books, the latest of which is Super Cosmos.

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Google Earth given celestial view

BBC News, August 22, 2007


The Google Sky add-on to Google Earth allows astronomers to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.